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https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=1410028802 https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=141002... Sept 2023 - Public sector empl

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=1410028802 https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=141002... Sept 2023 - Public sector employees: 4,291.7; Private sector employees: 13,293.4; Self-employed: 2,685.1 Sept 2003 - Public sector employees: 2,945.8; Private sector employees: 10,298.9; Self-employed: 2,430.0 Difference - Public sector employees: 1,345.9; Private sector employees: 2994.5; Self-employed: 255.1 % growth - Public sector employees: 45.7%; Private sector employees: 29.1%; Self-employed: 10.5%

Scoundreller 3y ago
Population change over the same time period is +23%. 31.6m to 38.8m Where did all the jobs come from? Are people not retiring? Spending less time in schooling? It's wasn't a massive decrease in unemployment that could explain that. https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/CAN/canada/population https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/CAN/canada/population
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- abdullahkhalids 3y ago
  A large part of the population growth is from adult working-age immigrants. So the employable proportion of the population has gone up.
- BeefWellington 3y ago
  That would make 23% roughly the floor then for public sector growth, assuming that the increase in population requires a corresponding increase in jobs like teachers, police, firefighters, healthcare, and all the other civil servants. The remaining 26% is the real question - who did huge hiring over the past 20 years?